Ingram Micro EVP Nimesh Dave told Cloud Summit 2017 attendees that clients should expect a world of sharing and services to replace the desire to own assets. That future, "flow-based" economy will mean that data security will become even more important.

EMC wanted to fill the SaaS hole in its data protection business by acquiring Spanning Cloud Apps in 2014, but it became an under-utilized asset under Dell EMC, according to a Spanning exec and a channel partner.

Windstream is making its business continuity solution, Diverse Connect, widely available. The offering packages multiple connectivity offerings, managed routers and an SLA into one solution for midmarket businesses that depend on cloud-based applications.

Cohesity specializes in hyper-converged infrastructure solutions for secondary storage, which makes its platform a tempting partnership for HPE and Cisco. Both IT giants have a stake in Cohesity and participated in the the new funding round.

After NetApp CEO George Kurian surprise the storage industry by announcing plans to enter the hyper-converged infrastructure market, SolidFire's founder David Wright fleshes out the details in a wide-ranging conversation with CRN.

The new offering allows partners to use Veeam's data protection software to do efficient direct snapshots of data on Cisco HyperFlex hyper-converged infrastructure deployments rather than work through production virtual machines.

Four of Pure Storage's top executives used the fiscal year 2017 earnings call to look forward at new technologies such as NVMe and synchronous replication and to make the case that the company's new FlashBlade unstructured data array can beat Isilon and NetApp.

The new Nimble Cloud Volumes keeps block data on all-flash and hybrid-flash storage in Nimble's own data centers with high-speed, low-latency access to that data available to AWS and Azure public clouds.

The HPE 3Par all-flash arrays are finally getting compression along with other capacity upgrade, and will be easier to sell thanks to the company's move away from line item licensing to an all-inclusive licensing scheme.

The acquisition, coming on the heels of Carbonite's recent purchase of disaster recovery and business continuity specialist EVault, shows that Carbonite, which started as a consumer cloud backup company, is rapidly becoming a B2B competitor.

RapidScale co-founder and CEO Randy Jeter shared how the cloud service provider is attracting stronger talent and benefiting partners by paying more attention to its workplace, amenities and company culture.